Multiplying in Access

[ziccardi]

I am trying to multiply 2 fields in Access
Field1 has a value of 70.1
Field2 has a value of 2.05

Formula is
[Field1] * [Field2]

Result is 143.704996657372

Help!! I really need it to give me the correct result of 143.705
I don't have a clue why access is not multiplying this correctly.

Just in case this makes a difference:
Field1 is defined on the table as Currency-Currency-Auto (decimal places)
Field2 is defined on the table as Number-Single-Fixed (6 decimal places)

[ADezii]

Try:

=FormatNumber([Field1] * [Field2],3)

[Stewart Ross]

All floating-point calculations are subject to rounding errors. Your second field is defined as of type single-precision - the lowest-accuracy form of floating-point storage used in VBA. Even if you used double-precision floating point values - which I would use as a matter of routine and not use the Single type at all - you will still face rounding errors in calculations.

ADezii's suggestion of using formatting to round the number is a good one.

I would use a double-precision field and simply round it for display purposes, using either formatting to three decimal places as ADezii suggests or explicit rounding (assuming that no further calculations are necessary):

=Round([Field1]*[Field2), 3)

By the way, using names such as Field1 and Field2 is a waste of a field name. Give your fields meaningful names that tell the reader what your field is storing.

-Stewart

[TheSmileyCoder]

Thats Access 2007 for you. Makes it way to easy to create tables with meaningless field names. :)

[ziccardi]

Actually I do have better field names but for the purpose of posting the question I tried to simplify. The answer given by ADezii seems to have fixed by problem. Thank you everyone for your help.